I got to tag along recently to an impromptu press conference called at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Ft. Worth by Texas Right to Life — you can read about the unfortunate circumstances here. We were expecting Kassi to speak to the legal issues involved, but she wasn’t questioned at that time.
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He’s not a fan of the new Joker, though he greatly admires Nolan’s version.
The truth is in your mask. The truth is in what you are doing.
Interesting take.
Paradoxically, a mask means I can be who I really am.
His point, based in some psychological theory, is that our plain faces are the real masks; that in our normal lives we artificially conform ourselves because of social convention, expectations, etc; but that “our mask” allows us to break out of those restrictions, inviting the true self – the inner or even unconscious self – to emerge.
Zizek is at his most entertaining and thought provoking when doing this kind of movie criticism, IMO.
